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... The committee formed to conduct this study found that measures can usefully quantify research outputs for many specific purposes, but that current measures are inadequate to guide nationallevel decisions about what research investments will expand the benefits of science. That is because metrics used to assess any one aspect of the system of research in isolation without a strong understanding of the larger picture may prove misleading.
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... Without this system-level understanding, policies focused on relatively narrow objectives -- such as increasing university patenting and licensing of research discoveries or reducing the funding for certain disciplines or types of research -- could have undesired consequences. With this understanding, however, the committee concludes that societal benefits from federal research can be enhanced by focusing attention on three crucial pillars of the research system: a talented and interconnected workforce, adequate and dependable resources, and world-class basic research in all major areas of science.
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... Attention to the pillars of talent, resources, and basic research will ensure that discoveries and innovations continue to emerge from the scientific research enterprise. Moreover, measures designed around these three pillars would promote a better understanding of the American research enterprise as a system.
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... 4 FURTHERING AMERICA'S RESEARCH ENTERPRISE These measures might include, for example, indicators of human and knowledge capital, indicators of the flow of knowledge in specific fields of science, indicators with which to track the flow of foreign research talent, portfolio analyses of federal research investments by field of science, international benchmarking of research performance, and measures of research reproducibility. Such measures could be used to guide federal research investments that would maximize the ability of the system to yield more of the societal benefits that have made it the world's premier scientific research enterprise.


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